Advocates of Philo T. Farnsworth as television's originator will like the Farnsworth Chronicles (www.farnovision.com/chronicles), a biography by Paul W. Schatzkin that draws in part on interviews with Farnsworth's widow and eldest son.
Mr. Grais has brought numerous "putback" lawsuits that seek to have originators like Countrywide repurchase mortgages that fell short of promised standards.
Since 2009, Ms. Coakley has extracted more than $600 million in restitution and penalties from lawsuits against mortgage originators like Option One and Fremont Investment and Loan and Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which bundled loans into mortgage securities.
Mr. Willis pointed out that the mortgage market has become more concentrated since the financial crisis, as several prominent originators — like Wachovia and Washington Mutual — hit trouble and were sold to larger banks.
Rather than stopping practices of profligate originators like New Century, Fremont and Ameriquest, Wall Street financiers, which held the purse strings for these companies, apparently decided to simply look the other way.
Companies like CIFG benefited in recent years when mortgage originators like Countrywide Financial and Wells Fargo filled the pipeline with new mortgages — often ones to people with poor credit histories.
The group's subsequent commercial success, and that of others like Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, funneled Blue Note's 60's sound into the youth market, creating a new audience and boosting the careers of the music's originators, like Mr. Wilson and Mr. Smith.
Such a move would be welcomed by mortgage originators like Countrywide Financial and Accredited Home Lenders.
And unlike the lenders during the housing bubble that led to the financial crisis, loan originators like CommonBond are providing information about all of the loans in their portfolio down to the individual loan, Klein says.
